Hellllooooooo.....

Testing, testing... I'm not sure this blog still works LOL!!! That's probably got a lot to do with the person that is suppose to update it hey? 

How is everyone? I hope you are well. I've been on the outskirts of things lately... not scrapping much; not always getting to check in with all your lovely blogs nearly as much as I like to and we won't even mention my poor unfortunate blog now will we :-(  Anyway, hopefully things will get back to normal now, life just got in the way for a while.

I thought I'd just do a very quick catch up on some of the very few pages I've done in the months since my last update.

Firstly some pages with gorgeous Handmade Halo products.

 

 

 

Secondly, some with some fabulous Rainbow Splendour goodies.

The first one actually has both Handmade Halo & Rainbow Splendour yumminess on there... perfect combination :-)



 

And these were for some challenges :-)



Thanks if you managed to make it to the end LOL!  I'm happy that I'm caught up with putting my pages up but sorry if it was a bit long winded.

I've been having fun doing the Olympiad Challenges over at Scrapz.Biz so I will have a few more shares for you soon :)

Take care everyone & stay warm :-)

Merry Christmas!

I've finally managed a little scrapping time since the kids started holidays YAY! and I'm hoping to do quite a bit more once all the festivities are over :-)

I saw this gorgeous page of Georgia Keays' on her blog. It totally inspired me & I wanted to have a go at it... so this is my page. Thank you Georgia for the awesome inspiration :-)
Photo by the ultra talented Linley, LaBelle Photographics.

I haven't done a challenge page in SO long! so I've made myself a little list of some that I would like to get done soon. I saw this great sketch set by the lovely Chloe over at Scrapz.biz.

And here is my page using some yummy goodies from Rainbow Splendour, Eye Candy Magic & Charms Creations.

In the New Year my youngest starts Prep. I'm quite sad thinking about how quickly my 3 gorgeous babies have grown :-(.  Everyone asks me what I'm going to do with myself... I think I'll find something to do LOL! I'm very involved in the school so I imagine I will spend even more time there once all 3 start & I think I deserve some more scrapping time in there too... well I hope I do anyway LOL!

I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful & safe Christmas & New Years! I hope 2012 is a great year for you. Thank you for all the gorgeous comments that you've left for me since starting my blog... I really enjoy reading them & they always make me smile :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Retreat shares

A big hello to everyone! I've been off-line for a while due to a number of things... my computer had to go away twice for repairs which was a tad frustrating; we went away to the Gold Coast for a fabulous (& much needed) holiday & this last school term has been SO busy!! You all know what I'm talking about on that count LOL!

So, given all of the above, scrap time has suffered very badly :-(   I did go on a retreat at the end of October with some wonderful friends & we had a fabulous few days away together. I struggled on the creating side though... just couldn't get into the groove unfortunately. I'll share my pages but they are pretty simple & nothing rave worthy LOL!

So here goes :-)
One of my scrappy friends challenged me to use yellow & clocks to scrap this photo of us all taken at the retreat. I used some Authentique for the first time.

Then a couple of school pages

Some Christmas pages.

And to finish off, a double...

So is everyone ready or nearly ready for the big, jolly fellow in red? I am thank goodness :-) I don't like shopping at the best of times and I don't cope well with crowds so I REALLY try hard to have all my Christmas shopping & preparations done well before the end of school... this year I succeeded YAY!

Thanks for stopping by after I've been absent for so long everyone... I love your visits xx

A few pages

I'm afraid that I'm going to be without a computer soon for a while... mine has a driver failing (or something like that) which is very annoying!! It's going to be a challenge having no computer that's for sure. Anyway I thought I'd just pop up a few of the pages I've done in the past couple of weeks before I go into the cone of silence for a while LOL!!
I used pagemaps sketches for these single pages...
Some yummy Purple Pumpkin, LovelyBug Bits n Bobs & Eye Candy Magic on this first page too :-)

 And I used a sketch from the Big Picture class that I did (well sort of did... I'm still catching up LOL!) for this one.

Hopefully I won't be away long while my computer gets some TLC... catch up when I get back :-)

A challenge

I have been terribly slack with my blog... too much other stuff to do unfortunately :-(  I have managed to squeeze in a bit of scrapping here & there though so I haven't been left totally scrapless :-)

I did this page for Lime Tree Creations monthly sketch challenge. I used some white LTC flowers but altered them with ink & mist to match my page... it worked really well I think :-)

Lime Tree Creations are also having a giveaway this month so pop on over to see how you could win some of Becci's yummy goodies.

 

Thanks for all your gorgeous comments girls :-)

Take care

Busy week!

It's the last week of school holidays here & my hubby has also had the week off so we've been trying to get all those jobs done that never seem to get done... we've managed to tick most of them off the list which feels good :-)

I haven't had time to scrap since my wonderful quiet weekend but I do have a few shares that I haven't had a chance to show you.

This one is the "What's Cooking" challenge set by the lovely Kerryn... this was part of the weekly challenges set at ScrapzBiz. The theme was "Pamper Me" so I scrapped this photo of the gorgeous hairdo that the kidlets gave me one night LOL!!

The next one was the "Inspiration challenge" set by the equally lovely Sheree also for the weekly challenges at ScrapzBiz. I used one of the double page sketches from the great class that I am doing at Big Picture Classes for this. I've also used some yummy A Lil' Somethin' banners & button on this & the previous pages :-)

And lastly I saw a great sketch challenge while doing a little blog surfing & wanted to try it out. It's the monthly sketch challenge set by Handmade by Suzanne.

If you love making cards or even if you find making cards a little challenging (like me LOL!) then ScrapBiz is the place to be this weekend. There has already been two fabulous challenges set & there will be more over the weekend. You should check out Kerryn & Sheree's sample cards... they are gorgeous!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

Quiet weekend :-)

I'm sitting in a very quiet house at the moment... nice but a bit weird LOL! Hubby & kidlets have gone to visit Grandma for the weekend & for a couple of reasons I decided to stay home. I'll be looking forward to them coming home tomorrow & might even appreciate their noise for a few minutes LOL!

I watched a movie & scrapped last night :-) I've been trying to catch up on older photos that I want to scrap & I had the leftovers of the MME kit on my desk so I did this page & added a Lime Tree Creations lollipop... yummy!

Back to my scrapping desk... YAY!!!!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend :-)

I finally have something to share!

Since my mojo was AWOL I pulled out another older page kit to play with. I got this kit at a retreat last year that was run by Scrappidoo Scrapbooking at the Sunshine Coast. We always have a great time when we get a chance to escape to the Coast for one of these retreats :-) 

With this first page I followed the page design fairly closely & just changed a few elements. I still love these older MME papers.

This next one was inspired by one of the kit pages but it ended up pretty much totally different LOL!

I'm hoping to really get back into my scrapping this month... I've never gone this long without regular scrapping since my boys were babies!!

Thanks for dropping by & for everyone's lovely comments... love & appreciate them! :-)

No Mojo :-(

I'm really not sure what's going on with my lack of mojo lately, I need to shake myself out of this scrapping slump somehow. I've really wanted to play with paper though so I pulled out a Pip Prosser page kit that I have had for a little while. I ended up having some great photos to go with it & I used some of my gorgeous Lime Tree Creations, Lovelybug Bits n Bobs & Billie's Buttons goodies on it. So I got to create a lovely page thanks to all these lovely girls :-)

Thanks for everyone's lovely comments... they all make me smile!

A few more :-)

I've been trying to scrap but I have a nasty headache & I'm not getting far at all :-( 

I have managed to download a few audible books for the kidlets to listen to in the car though so all is not lost.

Anyway, as promised, here's a few more of my recent favourites :-)

Oh! my sweet, sweet boys!!
TFL & the lovely comments :-)

Some recent pages

I thought I might start popping up a few of my more recent favourite pages over the next couple of days while I'm working on a couple of new challenges. The first 3 are ScrapzBiz challenges (awesome challenges all the time at ScrapzBiz!!) & the last one is a page I did on retreat in June.

Some yummy Purple Pumpkin goodness on a couple of these pages!

 This was a challenge to use fabric & sewing so I only used fabric & cardstock on this page :-)

I'll pop up a few more tomorrow :-) Thanks for dropping by!